I don't normally wish pain and suffering on people, but I'm very willing to make an exception for all the idiots who have maintained for years that weed is the worst thing in this entire world and has absolutely no redeeming values. Yes, DEA and Congress, I'm looking at you.

FTA:So, smoke it up to cure cancer?"That's one thing I've been trying to fight against for quite a few years now," Liu said.The bottom line here, he says, is that when all of the chemicals are burned or eaten at once - the usual way cannabis is used medicinally and recreationally - the positive, cancer-fighting effects could be lost in the mix.

That's the part many people seem to ignore. Smoking weed does not and WILL not "cure" cancer, nor will mixing it into brownies, making an extract and putting it into your vape, or any other foolish claims.

cherryl taggart:I don't normally wish pain and suffering on people, but I'm very willing to make an exception for all the idiots who have maintained for years that weed is the worst thing in this entire world and has absolutely no redeeming values. Yes, DEA and Congress, I'm looking at you.

and any other puritanical farkwad

/let people do what they want to do, so long as it doesn't hurt, steal, and/or damage another person's property//note how I didn't add "offend anyone"///I'm easily offended by those who are easily offended

In my day, we didn't have medical marijuanie, gay marriage or women sporting Brazilians. Just an onion on a $300 Ferragamo belt from Barneys, with $10 off for the blood stains from the beatdown of the previous owner.

Ugh, this sounds like another one of those studies where something is put in a petri dish/solution outside of the human body and found to kill cancer cells. Yes, so add some cannabus compounds to the many thousands of of other compounds that work on killing cells outside the human body. Science people!

unchellmatt:FTA: So, smoke it up to cure cancer?"That's one thing I've been trying to fight against for quite a few years now," Liu said.The bottom line here, he says, is that when all of the chemicals are burned or eaten at once - the usual way cannabis is used medicinally and recreationally - the positive, cancer-fighting effects could be lost in the mix.

That's the part many people seem to ignore. Smoking weed does not and WILL not "cure" cancer, nor will mixing it into brownies, making an extract and putting it into your vape, or any other foolish claims.

Nice, selective post.

Also FTFA:

"I'm not saying that cannabis itself, as the whole plant, won't work. We just don't know."

unchellmatt:That's the part many people seem to ignore. Smoking weed does not and WILL not "cure" cancer, nor will mixing it into brownies, making an extract and putting it into your vape, or any other foolish claims.

I have lost count of how many things have been claimed to "cure cancer" in mice or in a petri dish and haven't worked in humans. Nothing to see here.

flondrix:unchellmatt: That's the part many people seem to ignore. Smoking weed does not and WILL not "cure" cancer, nor will mixing it into brownies, making an extract and putting it into your vape, or any other foolish claims.

I have lost count of how many things have been claimed to "cure cancer" in mice or in a petri dish and haven't worked in humans. Nothing to see here.

I remember trying to database a fully-complete, all-encompassing herbal. What I learned was that pretty much any food-like item we put in our bodies is simultaneously cancer-causing and cancer-defeating. Yay, omnivores?

I still think smoking weed is a bad idea. Did it myself as a youth, watched all too many friends lose ambition, turn to crime, and otherwise ruin/end their lives because of it. Of course I can say much the same about booze. Not everyone has the support system/personal strength to handle it responsibly.

Ker_Thwap:I still think smoking weed is a bad idea. Did it myself as a youth, watched all too many friends lose ambition, turn to crime, and otherwise ruin/end their lives because of it. Of course I can say much the same about booze. Not everyone has the support system/personal strength to handle it responsibly.

hardinparamedic:Aidan: Considering your login and your usual personality on this site, I assume you've been through some seriously crazy shiat. Threadjack: but you cool? Destressing? Or still totally stressed out?

Ker_Thwap:Ugh, this sounds like another one of those studies where something is put in a petri dish/solution outside of the human body and found to kill cancer cells. Yes, so add some cannabus compounds to the many thousands of of other compounds that work on killing cells outside the human body. Science people!

Sort of like how that loser Alexander Flemming who noticed that Penicillium rubens released a substance with antibiotic properties.

Of course, as we all know, his test was in a dish/solution outside of the human body and that is why penicillin never really worked out.

unchellmatt:That's the part many people seem to ignore. Smoking weed does not and WILL not "cure" cancer, nor will mixing it into brownies, making an extract and putting it into your vape, or any other foolish claims.

But I have been doing this experiment for decades and am 100% cancer free!

Ker_Thwap:I still think smoking weed is a bad idea. Did it myself as a youth, watched all too many friends lose ambition, turn to crime, and otherwise ruin/end their lives because of it. Of course I can say much the same about booze. Not everyone has the support system/personal strength to handle it responsibly.

duffblue:Ker_Thwap: I still think smoking weed is a bad idea. Did it myself as a youth, watched all too many friends lose ambition, turn to crime, and otherwise ruin/end their lives because of it. Of course I can say much the same about booze. Not everyone has the support system/personal strength to handle it responsibly.

It was that demon weed that turned them into lazy shiatty people.

Eh, I think I covered that with my not everyone has the support system proviso. These weren't necessarily college bound kids to start with. From my own experience, I can certainly say that smoking made me lazy and not care.

TheGreatGazoo:The medical marijuana people sound a lot like homeopaths.

That being said I don't care if you smoke weed as long as I don't have to smell it.

I just got my Michigan card for a form of spinal arthritis. The anti-inflammatory effect of marijuana actually helps prevent my vertebrae from fusing together. Humera can do the same, but Humera's side effects are pretty scary.

Ker_Thwap:duffblue: Ker_Thwap: I still think smoking weed is a bad idea. Did it myself as a youth, watched all too many friends lose ambition, turn to crime, and otherwise ruin/end their lives because of it. Of course I can say much the same about booze. Not everyone has the support system/personal strength to handle it responsibly.

It was that demon weed that turned them into lazy shiatty people.

Eh, I think I covered that with my not everyone has the support system proviso. These weren't necessarily college bound kids to start with. From my own experience, I can certainly say that smoking made me lazy and not care.

Anyway, I'm off to go be productive, carry on without me.

Maybe, this isn't such a bad thing after all. Maybe, the world needs less assholes that measure their life in increments of "productivity."

SpectroBoy:unchellmatt: That's the part many people seem to ignore. Smoking weed does not and WILL not "cure" cancer, nor will mixing it into brownies, making an extract and putting it into your vape, or any other foolish claims.

But I have been doing this experiment for decades and am 100% cancer free!

Yeah, how does the cold slap of science feel!?!?!

/I keed

It feels, like... Mellow, man, like if we could you know get along and the lines on my hand! They're soooo cool. I could totally go for some Pringles. Wait, what? Oh wow.

Schroedinger's Glory Hole:Ker_Thwap: duffblue: Ker_Thwap: I still think smoking weed is a bad idea. Did it myself as a youth, watched all too many friends lose ambition, turn to crime, and otherwise ruin/end their lives because of it. Of course I can say much the same about booze. Not everyone has the support system/personal strength to handle it responsibly.

It was that demon weed that turned them into lazy shiatty people.

Eh, I think I covered that with my not everyone has the support system proviso. These weren't necessarily college bound kids to start with. From my own experience, I can certainly say that smoking made me lazy and not care.

Anyway, I'm off to go be productive, carry on without me.

Maybe, this isn't such a bad thing after all. Maybe, the world needs less assholes that measure their life in increments of "productivity."

I'm old and retired. The productivity in this case is going to change a ceiling light bulb for an elderly lady. You know, volunteer work. But you just stick to your preconceived notions.